Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brand of Cain," however, comes in a very close second. It is well sustained, and very vividly told, and the climax is unusually effectively managed. It is, moreover, very condensed, and not a word is wasted in "drool...
This is the climax of Newman's thought as it is the end of all wisdom, - to know the living and the true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought...
...From Boston to New York," lacks climax, though interesting as a story...
...been in the Advocate in some time. The unnecessary coarseness of the tipsy Mr. Ransom in his conversation with Miss Ames one feels to be bad art. It breaks unpleasantly through the playful treatment which to that point had carried the story, and implies a complication unnecessary to the climax. The picture of Mr. Ransom at the piano is capital, however, as is the exposure of Miss Ames. Although the combination of the sister and stranee chum in the brother's room while he and chaperone have gone out, is old, still Mr. Brown has given the Advocate a pleasantly...
...really joke-loving friend, and the fellow who indulges in a summer flirtation, unconscious of its serious results - are dyed-in-the-wool Harvard men, and the bits of description are quite cleverly done. The whole thing is true to the life here at Cambridge and the anti-climax is happy. It is perhaps the best thing its author has done this year...